The legal language of Scottish burghs : standardization and lexical bundles (1380-1560) / Joanna Kopaczyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopaczyk, Joanna.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Language and Law

Oxford studies in language and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Scotland--Language--History.

Law.

Scots language--To 1700.

Scots language.

Scotland--Politics and government--1371-1707.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study offers a unique combination of two methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis, and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich socio-historical background of legal discourse in medieval and early modern Scottish burghs, this monograph traces the links between orality, literacy, and law, which are reflected in discourse features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative texts.

Contents:

Introduction : Scots as the language of the law

The language of legal texts

Exploring language of the past : context, discourse and text

Repetition, fixedness and lexical bundles

Burghs in Scottish history

Living in a burgh

Law and the burgh

EdHew corpus material and lexical bundles

The grammar of lexical bundles in early legal Scots

Binomials and multinomials in early legal Scots

Short bundles : functional properties

Long bundles : functional properties and standardization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-318) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-024331-7

0-19-994516-0

OCLC:

852158677